Victoria

Authors from Victoria cover a lot of ground: crime in coastal towns, speculative series, family stories about migration, and books for younger readers. The names here run from Adrian McKinty and Sarah Bailey to Trudi Canavan and Sonya Hartnett.

To find Victoria authors to read next, begin with the kind of book you already like and follow the name.

Crime sits deep in this group. Adrian McKinty, Jock Serong and Sarah Bailey write about coastal towns, courtrooms and the kind of violence that arrives quietly. Sonya Hartnett and Katerina Gibson work closer to the bone, in families and friendships that turn. For readers who want speculative worlds, Trudi Canavan and Keri Arthur build series with their own rules, while Max Barry takes the near future and pushes it one step sideways. Amra Pajalic, Hoa Pham and André Dao write migration and its aftermath from inside the family, not from a distance. Felice Arena and Jackey Coyle reach younger readers and oral history. What holds them together is place: Melbourne streets, regional towns, the coast. New South Wales authors often write the city as a machine; Queensland authors write heat and distance. Victoria writes the suburb, the school, the shopfront, the house.